Question follow-through · 14604
Arthritis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help address variation in remission rates for inflammatory arthritis.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help address variation in remission rates for inflammatory arthritis.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2026
Answer published
We are supporting better care for patients with arthritis through the Getting It Right First Time Programme (GIRFT) for Rheumatology. The GIRFT rheumatology programme is supporting the National Health Service to deliver care more equitably across England ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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